I am planning to move from traditional VDI using normal PCs to zero Client machine , currently we have PC for each user and printers , scanner and smart reader scanner are connected to this pc and we are using VMware redirect printing and all drivers are installed on user PC
My question can I use zero client for the above scenario ,
If you meant Teradici Zero client, no you cannot. The reason is that the zero client does not support many VMware(Broadcom) Horizon features like VIP, Scanner redirection, Smartcard redirection etc.. That said if you don't mind the performance you could use USB redirection feature for those printers, scanners and smartcard readers in some use cases as workaround, but in some cases they just don't work out. Particularly for printers an alternative is to use LBP(location-based printing).
VIP is a feature that is developed by VMware/Broadcom and requires software running in both client and agent sides. If a zero client does not have Horizon client software running inside it would not support Horizon feature VIP.
Hi munirmatar, if there is Horizon client software running inside the box - we usually call it thin client rather than zero client - you can have a try. I think it's quite possible to work.
We started moving to thin clients a while back. We went with IGEL. While you can get devices preinstalled, they offer the option to deploy on existing hardware. Therefore, you do not have to replace all of your hardware you can just reload the device. They also offer bootable thumb drive style devices that will boot to their "zero trust" client software. They are fully compatible with VMware.
when you say Zero client be sure its not the old Devices with Teradici PCOIP as dell still use the name zero client even with thinOS (linux) devicese , they call it Zero client and its support PCOIP + blast protocol , such devices would support many features as printer redirection but not everything , fro Dell Wyse you need to update firmware to get latest features
